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List of ... Academy Award for Best Picture

 * Notes

Stats

 * best pic AND best director = 65 times


 * NO Best Director Award = 26 times ... first time /  most recent time


 * NO Best Director Nomination = 5 times = list the 5 ... only 5 times ... Best Pic did NOT get a Best Director nomination


 * Best Picture winning films without a Best Director nomination ... 5 times

total ...............................91

BP and BD ...........................65

BP but no BD Win but yes nom .......21

BP but no BD win AND no BD nom .......5

total ...............................91

Trivia
The individual who directed the most Best Picture winners was William Wyler, with three films: Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959).

Eleven other individuals each directed two Best Picture-winning films:

Frank Capra

Francis Ford Coppola

Clint Eastwood

Milos Forman

Elia Kazan

David Lean

Frank Lloyd

Vincente Minnelli

Billy Wilder

Robert Wise

Fred Zinnemann

No Best Director nomination = 5 times
There have been only five times in Academy Award history that the director of the Best Picture winner was not nominated for Best Director:


 * 1st Academy Awards (1927–1928) – Wings, directed by William A. Wellman


 * 5th Academy Awards (1931–1932) – Grand Hotel, directed by Edmund Goulding


 * 62nd Academy Awards (1989) – Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford


 * 85th Academy Awards (2012) – Argo, directed by Ben Affleck


 * 91st Academy Awards (2018) – Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly

To do list: for THIS article

 * BP list --- wip now  ( work in progress )


 * separate article? or not   (if yes --- good title?) ... List of ...


 * notes = check for Honorary Awards, etc ... from List of films with the most Academy Awards per ceremony ... and per AMPAS site


 * reconcile with ... List of films with the most Academy Awards per ceremony


 * check column widths


 * years 1927 and 1928 ... use dash or slash


 * statistics, etc.


 * select a title


 * re-CALCULATE the statistics


 * 1928 / 1929 ... use an EN DASH ( not a hyphen ) ... with no spaces on either side


 * superlatives ... longest - shortest - most wins / most noms


 * add Directors


 * name of article


 * devise ? ....  picture/director as ONE article?  or as TWO ?   ( good title )


 * check AMPAS site --- exact name & spelling of Best Pic / Best Director


 * double check - sorting - alphabetical order  etc.


 * re word all NOTES ... consistent style ...  At the 00th Academy Awards (1982) ...  etc.


 * fix things here ...  List of films with the most Academy Awards per ceremony